Garrett Paul Derycke
(PCSD file photo)
By Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — A 33-year-old Yale man with a history of substance abuse has been jailed on $100,000 bail on charges of exploiting a 6-year-old for child pornography as well as possessing child pornography on his computer device and Google photo account.
Garrett Paul Derycke, who previously lived in Cushing, was arraigned Wednesday from the Payne County Jail on the two-count felony charge punishable by as much as a life prison term plus 20 years on conviction, court records show. Derycke was ordered to return to court on March 15 with an attorney.
Derycke was arrested at his Yale residence on Feb. 28 by Payne County Sheriff’s Investigator Lew Kellison after the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received a cyber tip from Google concerning apparent child pornography that was uploaded to a Google Photos account, an affidavit alleged.
“The image metadata provided by Google suggest that the images were recently created by a cellphone and uploaded by the user, and the images were ‘newly produced’ or ‘homemade content,"” the affidavit alleged.
“On 2/28/2023, Payne County Sheriff’s Office Investigators and Task Force Officers of the Oklahoma Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force executed a search warrant at Garrett Paul Derycke’s residence,” where his cellphone was located, the affidavit alleged. During an interview, Derycke denied taking nude pictures of a child, the affidavit said.
According to Payne County court records, five months ago Derycke was placed on four and one-half years of probation for drunk driving on a revoked license in a vehicle with expired tags in Yale, plus 180 days in jail with credit for time served from his arrest in June of 2022, concurrent to his Drug Court termination cases.
Derycke had previously been placed on probation for felony marijuana possession in 2016 and misdemeanor drug possession in 2019, court records show.
